I think you are snagging on thinking this is an observation about difficulty, time-to-mastery, or mental firepower requirements. It's not.
replyIt's a plain observation that math exists on mostly it's own path with little to zero overlap with our lived experiences. If mathematics was a vector, it would have similar magnitude to other vectors, but it's direction would be much more removed from the typical knowledge pack, forcing you to get really close to the origin before you can "hop" over to that math vector. Other "knowledge" vectors, by virtue of being more bunched up, are closer together much further up, if that poor analogy at all makes sense.
Mathematics has a lot of knowledge points that do connect to the "real world" very deeply, but perhaps the nature of their linkage to other mathematical pieces of knowledge is best left to the mathematicians. But we can still use the pearls of wisdom that come out of the process.
replyVery true, I feel like the sense that Computing is easy comes from the inherent closeness of our lives experiences to it. Everyone uses a Phone they see ram understand memory, can understand process and processing.
replyThat is one clever metaphor. Thank you, I might steal it.
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